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Deaville

Ah Deauville, a city fixed in time, located in the Normandy region of France on the river Touque.

The Breeders' Cup

Racing fans, streaming in by roadways and seaways; a buzz of excitement from ladies in their stylish fashions and men boldly predicting the outcome of the contests – the scene will not be much different when Monmouth Park hosts the Breeders’ Cup World Championships the last weekend of October from when the track first opened its gates on July 30, 1870.

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November 2007

Volume I Issue 2

A Passion for Thoroughbreds

Three of their sport’s most successful coaches, football’s Bill Parcells, basketball’s Rick Pitino and hockey’s Joel Quennevile, were sitting in different sections of the Saratoga Race Course clubhouse Monday afternoon, August 6th. A fourth, baseball’s Joe Torre, might have been there, too, if he wasn’t coaching the New York Yankees that night in Toronto. ...more

Young Turks Tearing Up the Track

baze boys

Two teenagers were terrorizing America’s East and West Coasts this summer – on the racetrack. Three other jockeys in their early
twenties were also among the national leaders.

They are the vanguard of the new generation of jockeys filling the vacuum created when Hall of Famers Laffit Pincay, Jr., Jerry Bailey, Chris McCarron, Gary Stevens and Pat Day retired in the span of five years.

Halfway through 2007, 19-year-old Fernando Jara and 17-year-old apprentice Joe Talamo stood 10th and 12th nationally in jockey earnings, having won a combined $11 million. And that was before Talamo scored his first and second Grade 1 stakes victories on the same afternoon at Hollywood Park, July 7th. ...more

Destination: Keeneland

Or seven decades, Keeneland has been living out its 1936 motto, fulfilling a mission statement to perpetuate and improve the sport and to provide a course that is intended to serve as a symbol of the fine traditions of Thoroughbred racing in Kentucky’s famed Bluegrass.

Through its famed racetrack, which conducts racing in April and October over a new polytrack surface, and its sales company which offers Thoroughbreds with impeccable bloodlines four times a year, Keeneland is a special destination for all who enjoy Thoroughbreds. ...more